I think our internal dialogue that is the most detrimental is the whole "Just this ONE donut isn't going to throw away all of my hard work, I'll work it out tomorrow....". Or, "I've been really good this week, I'm going to get McDonald's." What I have been doing that seems to help me stay accountable is to track every single thing that I ingest, food, drink, snack, whatever. I keep a food journal. I have been doing it for two months now and it definitely makes me think about if I want to deal with the feelings of writing down that I ate all of those sweets, or that horrible fast food meal. It keeps me closer to the straight and narrow. And I don't lie to myself and leave things out of it. I used to try to do weight watchers, with the points, but I would just leave off the worst stuff b/c they would eat away all of my daily allotted points. With the journal, I'm not counting calories, or anything, just being brutally honest with myself about how I am doing. I know when I had a bad day, or weekend, and I can look back at the food choices that I made, and adjust accordingly. I read that it is all a part of a reflection exercise. I think that it is really helping me.
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